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Show Vv a v 3 : Gof f s Gallery 1 Nixon's failings will cause Democratic victory in 72 By MAX GOFF EDITOR'S NOTL: This is the first installment of a two part column. In view of (he failings of the Nixon Administration, Administra-tion, a Democratic victory in the 1972 Presidential race is imminent. This brings one infrequently asked question to mind: Does the Democratic party deserve victory? The Democrats have traditionally been known as the party of the people. It has been a coalition of the working class, the civil rights advocates and southern conservative Democrats. This coalition was foraed by Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, and for all interns and purposes, still exists. But the future of this coalition is in question. Since the election of Richard Nixon in 1968, the broad basis of Democratic support has been challenged. chal-lenged. The Republicans started initially with their "Southern Strategy." This was a move to win over the long time Democrats of the South, in view ol their political idealogy and not their traditional party identification. A second move was in the direction ot labor. "Hard hats" supporting Nixon foreign policy and reacting to youth protests over Vietnam seemed at one time to indicate that the majority ol working class people supported the conservative idealogy ol the Republican party. But these efforts were, in the last analysis, failures The Republicans haven't shattered Democrats '.!rv port yet. I view the possiblities of the Demo.:-losing Demo.:-losing a broad base of support to the Republican ' failure on the part of the Democrats, as oppo-cu successful politics on the part of the Repubi Furthermore. I view this failure as the result ol j process, starting as far back as 1952. |